Comments on: Helen Thomas Is The Balls http://sodblog.com/uncategorized/helen-thomas-is-the-balls/ The Internet's home for sarcasm. Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:21:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Heck http://sodblog.com/uncategorized/helen-thomas-is-the-balls/#comment-383 Heck Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:11:27 +0000 http://www.sodblog.com/?p=481#comment-383 if you have not yet done so, have a look at 60minutes interview of justice scalia's comments on the differences between torture and punishment, wherein he sums his opinion up as definitive and "correct"... thank christ he's already got it all figured out. if you have not yet done so, have a look at 60minutes interview of justice scalia’s comments on the differences between torture and punishment, wherein he sums his opinion up as definitive and “correct”… thank christ he’s already got it all figured out.

]]> By: Heck http://sodblog.com/uncategorized/helen-thomas-is-the-balls/#comment-382 Heck Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:39:46 +0000 http://www.sodblog.com/?p=481#comment-382 nate, come on... perino has the right of it here. you see, torture is ILLEGAL. john yoo wrote a series of legal positions arguing that, since the combatants are already illegal, they are therefore disquallified from any sort of legal protection from the US or world courts. anything you do to them is fair game, in the administration's eyes. they do not torture, they subject detainees to "enhanced interrogation techniques", which i suspect is a term that is not mentioned in the geneva convention accords... yet. torture is illegal. what we do was MADE legal by our justice department. therefore, what was done to detainees can not be defined as torture. perino does a fantastic job of applying and operating within the constraints of that narrow deductive logic. frustrating, no? nate, come on… perino has the right of it here.

you see, torture is ILLEGAL. john yoo wrote a series of legal positions arguing that, since the combatants are already illegal, they are therefore disquallified from any sort of legal protection from the US or world courts. anything you do to them is fair game, in the administration’s eyes. they do not torture, they subject detainees to “enhanced interrogation techniques”, which i suspect is a term that is not mentioned in the geneva convention accords… yet.

torture is illegal. what we do was MADE legal by our justice department. therefore, what was done to detainees can not be defined as torture. perino does a fantastic job of applying and operating within the constraints of that narrow deductive logic. frustrating, no?

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